LA Times: While Venezuela has long been among the most crime-ridden nations, homicide statistics are a matter of heavily politicized dispute. In February, the government rolled out its first official accounting in years, reporting that 17,778 people had been slain in 2015, more than 80% by firearms, for a homicide rate of about 58 per 100,000 population — down slightly from 2014. But the Observatory of Venezuelan Violence, a think tank, reported 27,875 homicides last year, or about 90 per 100,000 people. That would put Venezuela in the company of gang-ridden Honduras and El Salvador for the distinction of being the world’s most homicidal nation. (For comparison, the homicide rate in the United States is about 5 per 100,000.)
The point is life is worth;less when 20 years of growing up gives you a 2% chance of being murdered. What will emerge from the rubble? Is this evolution in progress?
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